International Trader - Europe

UBS Outmuscles Credit Suisse

UBS and Credit Suisse aren't twins, after all.

THE GIANT SWISS BANKS UBS and Credit Suisse Group match up nicely in some ways: Each has a large home-country presence and fast-growing global-asset management and private-banking business. Both prospered in 2005, with 2006 likely to bring more of the same.